The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-03

Mr.. A. E. Philips writing from Sanford I'M
der date of November LIST, says there has been
no yellow fever In Sanford there is none now
and there is no cause for alarm. All the doctors
now agree on these points.
Yesterday Mr.. Charles Vogt purchased the
Gregory plantation of nine hundred acres of
land, and paid for it $500 in cash.-Quincy
Herald
The Georgians received Jefferson Davis yes
terday at the Macon State Fair with enthus-
asiic reclamation. This is the froth of senti-
ment ON top of the wave of Southern feeling
Beneath it is calm and settled regard for the,
restored Union and old-time amity of North and
Souih.-Philade phia Record.
"A blanket mill, the first on the African con
tinent has just been opened at Cape Town,
worked by Caff1r girls, who receive "a cents a
day. The report of the Kaiping colliery in
North China, made by Kwong Yung Wang
gives 20 cents as the daily pay TO engine men,
Is cents for miners and Is cents for door and
switch boys The cotton and jnte mills OF
Bombay pay their operatives for 10 cents to IL
cents day.
of enterprise, Tor on the 1st instant it began to
supply 81. Augustine with local daily delivered
TO subscri; ers in that city by carrier before z
o'clock every morning. To accomplish this it
has branch Office and resident editor in the
Ancient City, who there prepares the ST. Au-
gustine Department of the NeUs-a distinct
and interesting portion of that first-class paper
By the way, the Neaos with full associated press
dispatches, now reaches Tallahassee on the
day of publication, it did before the recent
quarantine disturbances.
The ST. Augustine and Palatka Railway
Company is overhaulng all of its passenger
coaches and engines so as to be ready for the
suitable accommodation of the winter business.
-PdLaLka Ne,os
The Times Union says: Such an unheard
of thing in this part of the universe a NOW
ing machine among the express matter for
a South Florida town On yesterdays fast mail
train" The ignorance shown by the above para
graph Of what labor saving machinery is being
used by the farmers in Florida is no more than
is TO be expected. Putnam county can boast Of
a dozen or more, and there are at least four
within three miles of Palatks that have been in
for five six years.--Palatka Neacs.
The receipts for one day at the custom house
on tobacco alone this week amounted to $1,000
Key West Democrat
Good news comes from Virginia. The re-
ports received by the Democratic State Commit
Tee from the various districts in the State are
very satisfactory, indicating as they do ha the
majority in the next Legislature is like ? TO be
as large as il was in the last Brady in his turn
is knitting Malone, and altogether the pr spect
seems TO be fair for the democracy Raleigh
Netos and Observer.
The combinations known as trust are now
themselves combining. Leastwise it appears
that the Cotton Seed Oil and the Standard OIL
trusts are arranging to unite. The question in
all such matters is to where the people stand
Raleigh Netos and O6ssrrer
From Mr. F. G. Brent we learn that the Con-
tinental Hotel Company has closed a contract
with Mr.. 81. P. Harrington, and that the gentle
man will open this elegant hotel on or about the
1st OF December. Mr.. Harrington is an expert
enced hosteler, and is now conducting the Lake
Park House of Lake Minnetona near Minneap-
oils. Indiana. This looks well for winter travel
The PensacolSan
Mr.. 8. W. Lsndrum is now associated with
Mr.. c. R. Magee in the publication of the Pensa-
cola Psnsacolian, and congratulating our old
friend upon his return to journalism we wish the
firm of Mages & Landrum unlimited success
The Interstate Commerce Commission have
exhausted the whole appropriation Of Congress
$100Oe0-and are somewhat exhausted them
selves. 1t is limited that most of the money has
been spent in trying to find some one who un-
deIstands the enactment-RaeigAN etos and o.
seTuer.
General w. 4. Harvey is coming to make
his home in Florida. The editor OF the Herald
was with him at the battle Of Ash Hollow in
1854, and also at the founding OF Fort Pierre
General Harvey is ninety years of age-Quincy
Herald
- Mr.. H. c. Hanson, former Business Manager
Of the Macon Telegraph has bought controlling
interest in the Columbus Enqutrer-Sun and has
assumed the editorial and business management
of that paper Mr.. Hanson informs US that the
paper will receive all the press dispatches, and
that in politics it will be thoroughly Democratic.
He will at once place it among the leading dali
lies of the State. Columbus is to be congratu-
lated. A perfect gentleman, an able and ener-
getic journalist and progressive business man,
hr. Hanson will prove a valuable acquisition to
her citizenship.-O uts0ert (Ga.) LIBERAL
Mrs. Governor E. A. Perry and family are
in the city visiting Mrs. Kate Taylor, the mother
of Mrs. Perry, and other relatives.-GreenpiAe
(AIa) AdUOeats.
The American schooner Scotia, Captain
shearer, was picked up by the tug June last
Tuesday some fifty miles out at sea and brought
into port here, partially dismantled and with her
hold full of water. The Scotia sailed from Mo-
bile on the 9th inst. bound for some point in
Cuba, bat met with gale and became disabled ;
the captain sent his wife and child, together with
his crew, to New Orleans by passing steamer,
but he and his two mates stuck by their vessel
until PICKED up and brought into port The SEQ.
tia lies in the lower bay, and will probably be
brought to the city and q survey held to deter
mine what is best 10 be done in the interest OF
the owners and underwriters. -Pensacols Ad-
rdnce- Gdzette
On the 18th ultimo the tug Juno, of Pensa.
cola, fell in with the American schooner Scotia,
Capt. Shearer, thirty Imiles off that port and
towed her into the harbor. With the captain
were the first and second mates of the vessel,
which was water-logged and had lost two of her
masts. The history of her disaster chronicles